G/TBT/N/ARG/344/Add.5  
17 August  2021 
(21-6254) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, dated 1 7 August 2 021, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Argentina . 
 
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Title: Draft Specific Technical Regulation establishing the labelling and technical quality and safety 
requirements to be met by products identified as ceramic blocks and tiles that are marketed in the 
Argentine Republic . Repeal of SCI Resolution No. 812/2019  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[ ] Comment period changed - date:  
[ ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[ ] Notified measure published - date:  
[ ] Notified measure enters into force - date:  
[ ] Text of final measure available from1: 
[ ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:  
[X] Content or scope of notified measure changed and text available from1: 
http://www.puntofocal .gob.ar/formularios/notific_arg.php  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/ARG/modification/21_5242_00_s
.pdf 
New deadline for comments (if applicable ): 
[X] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1: 
http://www.puntofocal.gov.ar/notific_otros_miembros/Arg/344a3_t.pdf  
http://www.puntofocal.gov.ar/notific_otros_miembros/Arg/294a8_t.pdf  
[ ] Other:  
 
 
 
1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a PDF attachment, or other 
information on where the text of the final measure/change to the measure/interpretative guidance can be 
obtained.  G/TBT/N/ARG/344/Add.5  
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  Description : Notification of the draft Specific Technical Regulation establishing the labelling and 
technical quality and safety requirements to be met by products identified as ceramic blocks and 
tiles that are marketed in the Argentine Republic.  
 
Domestic manufacturers and importers of ceramic blocks and tiles covered by the notified measure 
will be required to ensure compliance with the labelling and technical req uirements and the 
conformity assessment procedure set out in Annex I to the draft Regulation.  
Accordingly, Secretariat of Domestic Trade (SCI) Resolution No. 812/2019, notified in document 
G/TBT/N/ARG/344/Add.3, has been repealed.  
 
The National Technical R egulation Directorate is empowered to establish the date from which the 
obligations contained in the implementation stages described in Annex I to the draft Regulation shall 
enter into force . It shall issue an administrative act within 60 days of the recog nition of the first 
certification body, in accordance with the provisions laid down in Resolution No. 344/2021, notified 
in document G/TBT/N/ARG/294/Add.8.  
 
With regard to the implementation of the label s and marking s, a transition period of 120 days from 
the publication of the corresponding resolution is provided.  
 
Punto Focal de la República Argentina  (Focal Point of the Argentine Republic)  
Subsecretaría de Políticas para el Mercado Interno (Under -Secretariat for Domestic Market Policies)  
Dirección Nacion al de Reglamentos Técnicos  (National Technical Regulation Directorate)  
Avda. Julio A. R oca 651 Piso 4° Sector 23A (C1067ABB)  
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires  
Tel.: (+54) 11 4349 4067  
Email: focalotc@produccion.gob.ar  
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